Reading Comprehension with Fab 4

What are the Fab 4, and how do I use them to increase reading comprehension?

- use the title, pictures, text features, and information you already know to guess what will happen in the text. Think about what we know (movies, personal experiences, other books, friends)

• Predict

• Question

• Clarify

• Summarize

What is a type of Question we discussed

• Quiz Questions

• Talk Show Questions

• Wonder Questions

• All of the above

Clarify

• you use the title, pictures, text features, and information you already know to make an educated guess on what might happen in the text.

• • answers that can be clearly found in the text.

• highlight words, sentences, or ideas that you don’t fully understand. use strategies like context clues, asking a friend, or visualizing to determine the meaning.

• new reading strategies

Summarize

• make an educated guess on what might happen in the text.

• have more than one answer and can be discussed by a group

• try to figure out the meaning.

• most important details from the text to give a snapshot of what it is about.